When I was a kid, I took The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. – George Saunders
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life Ive done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. – George Saunders
The word funny is a bit like the word love – we dont have enough words to describe the many varieties. – George Saunders
If you havent read you dont have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience. – George Saunders
Id love to be an artist thats multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldnt that be cool if I was like, Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song. I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows? – Anne Hathaway